ENTEBBE .
Uganda’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Adonia Ayebare has been appointed to Cabinet as an ex officio member.
Ambassador Ayebare was sworn in on April 28 by the Vice President, Ms Jessica Alupo, who chaired the Cabinet meeting at State House, Entebbe when President Museveni was presiding over the first –ever hybrid pass out of 10,007 UPDF recruits at Kaweweta Military Training School in Nakaseke District.
After his appointment and swearing in , Ayebare took to microblogging site X ,formerly Twitter to thank the President for the appointment.
“Thank you, Your Excellency, for the trust in me over the years with strategic Diplomatic assignments, both bilateral and multilateral.
I look forward to diligently serving as an ex officio in Cabinet,” reads a post on his X handle .
State Minister for Youth ,Mr Balamu Bagarugahara also went to his X handle and said :Warmest congratulations to Ambassador @adoniaayebare on his appointment as an ex-officio member of Cabinet by H.E. President @KagutaMuseveni , and on successfully being sworn in this morning by H.E. Vice President \ @jessica_alupo. Proud to celebrate this milestone with our friend,”
Ambassador Ayabare has been Uganda’s Permanent Representative to the UN since March 2017. Before the appointment , he served as the Senior Adviser on Peace and Security at the African Union’’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York City.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Commission ,obtained from Makerere University in 1993 .He also two Master of Arts degrees –one from Long Island University and the other from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy . His two doctoral degrees were obtained from Indiana University and Rutgers University in the United States .
From 1996 until 1998, Ayebare worked as a journalist at the East African Business Week ,between 1998 and 2000, he worked as an information officer with the Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN).
Ayebare’s diplomatic career began in 2001 when he was appointed Uganda’s Principal Adviser and Special Envoy to the Burundi peace process, serving in that capacity until 2008. Between 2002 and 2005, he worked as Uganda’s Ambassador and Head of Mission to Rwanda and Burundi .
In the same year ,he was transferred to Uganda’s mission at the United Nations, based in New York, serving as Deputy Permanent Representative and Charge’ d’affaires, until 2008. In 2009, he was appointed as Director of the Africa Programme at the “International Peace Institute”, a think tank, based in New York, serving there until 2011. From 2010 until 2012, he returned to the US to serve as Deputy Head of Uganda’s mission to the UN, based in New York City.